Alert: Google Makes big Pirate Algorithm Change

by Michael Levanduski

While not nearly as famous or influential as either Panda or Penguin, the algorithm typically called “Pirate” has gotten a long overdue update. The update, which began rolling out on October 17th, is designed to try to push sites that promote illegal downloads off of the search results pages. For example, torrent sites are less likely to show up in the search results than ever before.Read the full article